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Harassment of group of doctors: The Health Ministry has over stepped its authority, says AMS
View(s):The Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) has condemned the Health Minister and certain Health Ministry officials for their unprecedented and unacceptable actions towards the medical officers and medical specialists in the recent past.
The AMS says that they understand that certain high officials from the Ministry of Health have written to the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) instructing the SLMC to cancel the registration of medical practitioners who have already been served “vacation of post” by the Ministry of Health.
The medical specialists claim that the Ministry of Health has over stepped its authority and engaged in an unfair and illegal act, most probably to harass a particular group of doctors.
“Vacation of posts by medical practitioners happened many times in the past and in none of these occasions’ Health Ministry has requested the SLMC to cancel the registration of such doctors. As there was no change of regulations pertaining to the “professional misconduct” of the medical practitioners recently, this deplorable action by certain Health Ministry officials amounts to pure harassment of this group of doctors.”
AMS also observed that the above action had been initiated only for a selective group of doctors and not for all doctors who vacated their posts.
“SLMC is an independent body governed by internationally recognized regulations with regards to disciplinary matters. Hence, no one can “instruct” the SLMC to cancel the registration of a medical practitioner as this procedure involves proper complaint in the form of an affidavit, a duly conducted inquiry by the professional conduct committee of SLMC and final ratification by the SLMC,” the statement further asserted.
As such, AMS said it requests Health Ministry officials to withdraw such letters immediately and to abstain from harassing medical practitioners, especially at a time the health sector is experiencing unprecedented hardships.
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